Homay King
Department/Subdepartment
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of Focus
Film, contemporary art, digital media, and theory
Biography
Homay King is Professor and Eugenia Chase Guild Chair in the Department of History of Art at ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳. She is a co-founder of ÀÏÍõÂÛ̳’s Program in Film Studies. She is the author of two books: (Duke UP, 2015), which won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and (Duke UP, 2010), which provided inspiration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. Her work on film, digital media, contemporary art, and theory has appeared in Afterall, Discourse, Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, October, and collections including the exhibition catalogs for and (Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art). She was featured in a video essay for the . She is a member of the editorial collective.